*John Adams will be conducting the May 14 and 15 peformancs of Martins' new ballet "Guide to Strange Places".

*On May 5th , there will be a seminar at the NY State Theatre on Christopher Wheeldon's upcoming ballet "Carnival of the Animals", with Wheeldon, John Lithgow and Christine Redpath. The event is from 5:30-6:30pm and is $5 for admission, free to NYCB Guild members.

Look for casting for the first week of performances to be posted the week of April 21!

Hi! Casting for the first week of the NYCB Spring season has been posted. It's unclear whether Hubbe will dance at all this season, and I'll be really excited to see Woetzel back on stage if he does dance during the first week. Millepied and Tewsley are absent from the casting, but most of the week is "Swan Lake", and that limits the number of principal dancers performing. I'm still hoping to see Tewsley in "Swan Lake" Ashley Bouder is injured, hopefully to be dancing again sometime in the spring season.

NYCB has announced that there will be a another new Christopher Wheeldon ballet this season, this one to music by Avro Part. The world premiere is on May 31st, with additional performances on June 4th and June 14th. The May 15th peformance will be a celebration of John Adams as part of the "Lincoln Center Presents Great Performers: "John Adams: An American Master" which takes place March 20-May 17.

Thanks, ksneds! I have to make a concerted effort to make it to the Spring Season...

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posted 20 April 2003 05:16 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have just read the casting for the first week of Spring Season and I am missing Robert Tewsley. Does anybody know if he is still injured? Or does anybody know some other reason for his absence? Thank you for every answer and HAPPY EASTER TO ALL

Hi! I don't know if Robert Tewsley is still injured, but since the first week is primarily "Swan Lake", the casting list is fairly short.

Remember, sometimes even if a dancer is healthy during the season, they may not have been healthy while pre-season rehearsals occured. Thus, a dancer who has been injured may not intially dance as much until they've gotten back into rehearsals. This is especially true for dancer like Tewsley who is new to much of the NYCB repertory.

And with three new ballets, more than a few dancers are probably busy learning new choreography. Kate

Thank you Kate for your quick answer. I was afraid Robert Tewsley would still be injured. I think this Balanchine Style is so very different to the works he did here in Stuttgart and later in London. This might force injuries. Anyway, Good Health for Robert

All ballets are story ballets. To paraphrase George Balanchine, the minute a man approaches a woman onstage, it's already a story.

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However, some ballets carry more story than others. And, though Balanchine's choreography is most incisive in ''plotless'' dances such as ''Concerto Barocco'' and ''The Four Temperaments,'' he did, in fact, make plenty of narrative ballets, some miniatures (''The Steadfast Tin Soldier'') and some grand, indeed.

''Coppelia'' is probably the grandest. A full three acts, it's peopled by a whole village, from the Mayor to a pack of rowdy boys who torment old Dr. Coppelius the toymaker, causing him to stumble and drop the key to his mysterious workshop.

Hi! In the May issue of Vanity Fair (pp. 190-1) there is a picture and very brief article about Christopher Wheeldon's upcoming ballet, "Carnival of the Animals". The picture reveals that Carla Korbes and Jenifer Ringer wil be in the ballet, as well as P.J. Verhoest, who was one of the children featured in a NY Times Magazine (?) article about SAB auditions.

The casting for all the divertissments in "Swan Lake" was posted at the State Theatre, and the "Swan Lake" casts are full of principals and soloists. The best news of the week is that Nikolaj Hubbe is scheduled to dance on Friday!!!! Ben Millepied will be dancing Saturday and Sunday. Other principals and soloists appearing are Neal, Ringer, Borree, Martins and Marcovici. Taylor, Higgins and Gold are among the soloists. No Angle or Tewsley that I saw.

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